Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion week's end, the pubs were full of invasion talk. But people also talked inexhaustibly about the cut in the milk ration, about boiling fowls which were 25 shillings ($5.00) in the black market, virtually unobtainable elsewhere at the controlled price of eight shillings sixpence...
...milk stand in the sun. This advice was earnestly tendered recently by chemists of North Carolina State College. Their findings: bottled milk in the sun loses 40% of its vitamin 62 (riboflavin) in an hour, 72% in three hours. In the refrigerator or even in a dark room at room temperatures it loses none at all. Milk is the chief source of riboflavin in the U.S. diet...
...Work. At home, our day began at 7 a.m. Before breakfast we had to fetch the milk for the small children. For breakfast we always had potatoes and bread. Butter was very scarce. Then the boys and girls went to school and the women had to go out and queue up for fish, if they could find some fish, and other foods. This took several hours, then they went home to make dinner, mostly potatoes. There are a hundred ways to fix potatoes. We had meat, usually half veal and half horse, once every four months...
...Thomas Katz, of Brooklyn: "A fresh lettuce and tomato sandwich with ice-cold fresh milk to wash it down...
...Elbert Noel Beeler, of Hillsboro, Ill.: "Fresh milk and the morning paper at the front door...